11.15
Chapter 11, Verse 15
अर्जुन उवाच पश्यामि देवांस्तव देव देहे सर्वांस्तथा भूतविशेषसङ्घान्। ब्रह्माणमीशं कमलासनस्थ मृषींश्च सर्वानुरगांश्च दिव्यान्৷৷
arjuna uvāca paśyāmi dēvāṅstava dēva dēhē sarvāṅstathā bhūtaviśēṣasaṅghān. brahmāṇamīśaṅ kamalāsanastha- mṛṣīṅśca sarvānuragāṅśca divyān৷৷
Translation
Arjuna said: O almighty God! I see in Thee the powers of Nature, the various creatures of the world, the Progenitor on his lotus throne, the Sages and the shining angels.
Translation — Purohit Swami
Commentary
पश्यामि (I) see, देवान् the gods, तव Thy, देव O God, देहे in the body, सर्वान् all, तथा also, भूतविशेषसङ्घान् hosts of various classes of beings, ब्रह्माणम् Brahma, ईशम् the Lord, कमलासनस्थम् seated on the lotus, ऋषीन् sages, च and, सर्वान् all, उरगान् serpents, च and, दिव्यान् divine. Commentary: Arjuna describes his own experience of the Cosmic Form in this and the following verses, 15 to 31.Bhutaviseshasanghan Hosts of various classes of beings, both animate and inanimate. These numerous entities are in Thy Cosmic Form, like hairs on the human body.Brahma, the fourfaced, the Lord of all creatures, is seated in the centre of the earthlotus on the Meru which forms the thalamus as it were of the earthlotus.Sages, such as Vasishtha. Serpents, such as Vasuki.Moreover --
Commentary — Swami Sivananda
Sanskrit and transliteration of the Bhagavad Gita. Corpus compiled from the vedabase and the IIT Kanpur Gita Supersite.